Political Diary editor Jason Riley on how the left would rather cry "racism" than debate Republican proposals on inequality, upward mobility and the poverty trap. Photo credit: Associated Press.

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... I ... the two Concerto I'm Mary Kissel ... the recent fall dry and made some comments on the bill Bennett show ... about inner city poverty that does create a lot of comments ... have a listen ... we have got ... to open up ... her ... inner inner city in particular ... in May networking to ... generations of men ... not ... even thinking about working or learning the value of the call for work and so there's a ... real culture problem here that had to go with ... the temple so that we talk about one week of civil society ... little diary editor and Fox News contributor Jason Riley joins me now Jason ... O'Brien right into the center city communities have a paltry problem ... yes he is right but of the firsts that we should dismiss the notion that the call right for deposit Klinsmann Mary um ... first ball as a mentor was the former secretary ... and Congressman and a Republican who probably spent ... more time in inner cities in addressing the issues than any Republican the past forty years ... Paul Ryan has also been traveling the country with a gentleman named ... Bob what's that ... who is a community organizer a black conservative probable out that in the seventies over bossing ... Publix and has a no nonsense guy who would have nothing to do with the Paul Ryan that as critics are on ... a trend of turning or caricature here ... so we should dismiss that I can but obviously there is a cultural element ... to poverty ... for talking about culture for defining it as as as attitudes and habits ... most of the winners of its own economic issue Jason that this is a lot of economic opportunity here ... it's partly that ... there certainly is not enough economic activity but ... there is also up attitudes and behaviors ... in the ghetto ... generations of poverty generations of welfare recipients ... and the worst part of this is that a lot of the last efforts to address the situation ... have made the situation were all the presents my brother's keeper program ... he he he he actually says something about the silence that he's just a way that you know when the left is being honest they will acknowledge that there ... is a call for a woman to what's going on here again impact Moynihan wrote about this fifty years ago the sociologist William Julius Wilson was writing that in the eighties and nineties and Harry had Obama talking about it when he was ... rolling out the My brother's keeper up plan which is aimed at inner city ... but that's ... what what what I'm saying is that the the the last efforts to address this issue often ... made it worse when you try to replace the father in the home of the will to check ... when you opt in to night school choice to kids and keep them in failing schools ... up this affects ... behavior seen in the committee Republicans have erased from the base and find it difficult ... to talk about these issues or is it to me and going after people like Paul Ryan had to be basically saying the same thing that the president said and is now well I think the Republican party is pragmatic and right now they can win votes by reaching out to some groups ... and not reaching out to others at times reaching out to some groups means less time to reach out to others so they don't get a real return on their efforts in the black community right now there may come a time and that having this debate over Hispanics with a deal we need to grow our base so we can't win elections anymore ... they still feel that they can win elections without reaching aam what's I think that more than anything else explains the lack of black outreach well it's it's a good debate to have clinical diary editor and Fox News contributor Jason Riley thank you so much for joining us ...